52 Quotes About Antinatalism

To exist is a state as little conceivable as its contrary. No, still more inconceivable.

Everything that is engenders, sooner or later, nightmares. Let us try, therefore, to invent something better than being.

And when I think my thinking rouses me to blame he who created me, And I gave peace to my children for they are in the bliss of the abyssWhich surpasses all the pleasures of the world,And had they been born they would’ve endured misery

What misery! and all these girls, broken by fatigue, were silly enough to come here at night and make babies, more flesh to toil and suffer! It would never end while they went on getting themselves filled with starvelings.Ought they rather not stop up their wombs and close their thighs tight against approaching disaster?But then, perhaps he was only harbouring these dismal thoughts because he resented being alone, when all the others were pairing off to take their pleasure.

Being a person is not nearly as overrated as having played a part in the initiation of the process that has led to the being of a person.

One naive pro-natalist assumption is that because death is a bad thing, procreation, which can be considered the antonym of death is a god thing, but the naive defect in that assumption is that it ignores the obvious fact that procreation is an essential (and the ultimate cause) of death

Oh, wretched ephemeral race … why do you compel me to tell you what it would be most expedient for you not to hear? What is best of all is utterly beyond your reach: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second best for you is—to die soon.

the single worst moment of my life, was the moment I was born

What foolishness it is to desire more life, after one has tastedA bit of it and seen the world; for each day, after each endless day,Piles up ever more misery into a mound. As for pleasures: once weHave passed youth they vanish away, never again to be seen.Death is the end of all.Never to be born is the best thing. To have seen the daylightAnd be swept instantly back into dark oblivion comes second.